Thursday, October 7, 2010

Lavell Collins: St. Louis Homicide No. 93; Shot Dead in North City

Police have identified the body found at the intersection of Page and Sarah (below) last night as 33-year-old Lavell Collins.

​St. Louis police responded to a call of shots fired around 8:30 p.m. October 6. Collins, of the 4300 block of Cook, had been shot multiple times. Court records show that a man with the same name and year of birth as Collins had multiple run-ins with the law over the years, including guilty pleas for marijuana possession and resisting arrest in the 1990s and driving without a license in 2003 and 2006. An investigation into his murder is ongoing.